Chloe was declared the winner in this match, but instead of cheering, the other participants were confused because they did not see clearly what happened before that made Chloe win. Their gazes were all focused on Princess Irene until a loud voice was heard that distracted their focus.

  "Eh, Princess Chloe was declared the winner? But what did she actually do before?,"

  "No one saw what Princess Chloe did," said the other participants.

  "I'm confused about what Chloe actually did to win, but never mind," said Charles.

  "Chloe, congratulations on winning and graduating," said Charles who suddenly shouted.

  Then he clapped his hands.

  "Congratulations, Chloe," said Noa.

  "Chloe, congratulations," said Enzo.

  Noa and Enzo also congratulated and clapped. Because the three of them clapped, the other participants started to follow them to clap

  "Congratulations, Princess,"

  "You're great, Princess,"

  "Your attack was great, Princess," said the other participants.

  ”They were confused about what Chloe did to win, and now they’re saying Chloe’s attack was great, they're liar,” I thought.

  “Eh-eh what, why are they all clapping?,” Chloe thought, suddenly becoming nervous.

  I looked at Chloe’s arena and tried to observe what was happening. When I saw what was happening, I realized that Emily’s Earth Wall had been destroyed in the arena.

  ”The Earth Wall that was destroyed and Chloe who was holding a bow at the end. If Chloe used an arrow to attack Emily, Emily should have been able to anticipate it by using an Earth Wall that matched Chloe’s arrow so that the arrow couldn’t destroy her Earth Wall. There’s only one condition to explain what happened. It seems like Chloe can already use that technique,” ??I thought.

  -

  A few moments earlier.

  “And for her opponent, please come forward, participant Irene Emerald San Lucia,” said the supervisor Nora.

  "What? Irene will advance to the next arena?," Chloe said in surprise and looked at Irene.

  "Princess Irene huh? The other participants will definitely be focused on watching the ice princess's action, unfortunately I'm still in the match. But princess, you shouldn't look away while fighting your opponent," Emily said.

  Emily quickly approached Chloe and attacked her with her magic wand, but Chloe swiftly blocked it with her two daggers.

  "Just so you know princess, you're not the only one who can use close-range attacks," Emily said.

  Emily kicked Chloe's leg and caused Chloe to lose her balance. When Chloe lost her balance, Chloe's defense was open and Emily stabbed Chloe's stomach with the blunt bottom of her magic wand.

  "Ughhhhhhh," Chloe groaned.

  Chloe was thrown a few meters back after being pushed by Emily's magic wand.

  "Earlier I didn't have time to react because of your fast attack, princess. But now it will be different," Emily said.

  Earth Magic, Earth Ball Multi Shot

  Emily attacks Chloe who is lying down with many earth balls. Chloe immediately wakes up and avoids the earth balls. Chloe also slashes the earth balls with her dagger.

  Earth Magic, Earth Ball Multi Shot

  Emily attacks Chloe again with her earth ball attack.

  This is endless, I have to get close to her,” Chloe thought.

  Chloe ran towards Emily while dodging and slashing the earth balls.

  Fire Magic, Fire Dagger Slash

  Chloe unleashed a fire slash from her dagger as she ran towards Emily.

  Earth Magic, Earth Wall

  Emily swiftly blocked Chloe’s fire slash. But Chloe immediately moved past the ~Earth Wall from the side and threw her fire dagger towards Emily.

  “What?,” Emily said in surprise.

  But she deftly used her magic wand to block the thrown dagger.

  “It seems like you can’t immediately cast Earth Wall again after you just cast it,” Chloe said.

  Chloe immediately attacked with her remaining dagger.

  “Don’t underestimate me, princess,” Emily said.

  Emily swiftly used her wand to block Chloe. The wand and dagger clashed.

  “This situation is the same as before,” Emily said.

  “Don’t tell me?!?!,” Chloe was shocked.

  Emily kicked Chloe's leg again, causing her to lose her balance. When Chloe's defense was open, Emily tried to stab Chloe again using her staff.

  "This time it's not an ordinary stab, this will be different from before," Emily said.

  Earth Magic, Earth Blow

  A stab of magic hit Chloe's stomach.

  "Ahhhhhh," Chloe groaned in pain.

  Chloe was thrown so far that she almost hit the wall of the arena. Her dagger was thrown far from her grasp.

  ”Hah, hah, hah, now you’re getting further away, princess,” said Emily who was already exhausted.

  Chloe immediately got up after lying down for a while and immediately used her arrow.

  Fire Arrow

  Chloe shot a fire arrow at Emily.

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  Earth Wall

  Emily immediately brought out her earth wall again.

  ”How many times have I told you that you can’t penetrate Earth Wall with your arrows, princess. No matter how many types of arrows you use, I just have to adjust the Earth Wall too, So what do you think princess, do you want to give up?” said Emily.

  “How is this, even close-range attacks using daggers can’t defeat him, every time I use an arrow attack he can withstand it with that Earth Wall, even the type of arrow that has high attack power he can withstand. What should I do? Am I going to lose here?” thought Chloe.

  ”It seems like there is no other way, maybe I will lose here and not be able to enter the academy. Even though I am the princess of the kingdom, I am very disappointing, right? Forgive me, Father, forgive me, Mother, forgive me, Brother, forgive me, Carol,” thought Chloe who was about to give up.

  When she was about to give up, Chloe suddenly remembered the technique Rid used during the second exam, a technique that could manipulate the form of magic and mana, a technique that Rid had taught her directly.

  ”That's right, there is still one more way to defeat him from afar, a technique taught by Rid,” thought Chloe.

  ”But when Rid taught me earlier, I still couldn't combine the two different magics, how can I possibly do it now?,” thought Chloe who was starting to despair again.

  But Chloe remembered her responsibility as the princess of the kingdom, she didn't want to disappoint her family.

  ”I am Chloe Estella San Fulgen, I am the princess of this kingdom, in the future I will be the one who will replace my mother to lead this kingdom. How could I possibly give up just because of this?!?!,” said Chloe.

  After that, Chloe slapped her own cheeks with both hands.

  *Plakkk *Plakkk

  "What are you doing, Princess?," Emily said.

  "It's okay, this is just a ritual to boost your spirits," Chloe said.

  Suddenly a loud sound was heard.

  *BUMMMMMMMMM

  "What's that sound? what happened in the next arena?," Emily said in surprise.

  "..... It looks like Irene has won," said Chloe who seemed to already know what happened.

  Smoke dust gathered in the next arena, after a while the dust disappeared. And Jeremy was seen who was already unconscious after being hit by Irene's attack and hitting the wall. After that an announcement was heard.

  "The winner for the match test between Jeremy Kunich and Irene Emerald San Lucia is ........ Irene Emerald San Lucia," said the supervisor Nora.

  "So the winner is the ice princess huh? Even though she just competed, she already won? That's fast," said Emily in surprise.

  "This match seems to be over too," said Chloe.

  “Huh? Are you ready to give up, princess?” Emily said.

  “Not because I’m the one who’s going to give up, but because you’re the one who’s going to lose. I’ll make sure you experience the same thing as the contestant Irene fought,” Chloe said as she prepared to use her bow and arrow.

  ”Huh? You said you would make me experience the same thing as the contestant who was against the ice princess? You are very confident that you can win, huh, princess?. And you want to try using your arrows again? Isn't it useless, all kinds of arrows that you shoot will be blocked by my Earth Wall variation, are you so desperate that you decide to shoot your arrows continuously until your stamina and mana run out?,” Emily said.

  ”You talk too much, huh,” Chloe said.

  “To be able to use the technique that Rid did, I have to concentrate fully. I better ignore his talk,” Chloe thought.

  Chloe then tried to make 2 different combinations of fire arrows in her right hand.

  ”I will make a combination of Fire Piercing Arrow with a regular Fire Arrow, the shape of Fire Piercing Arrow is different from a regular Fire Arrow, Emily will definitely realize that it is not a regular arrow and will try to use a stronger Earth Wall to hold it, for that I will make Fire Piercing Arrow with the shape of a regular Fire Arrow,” Chloe thought.

  ”Focus, Focus, Focus Chloe, flow both mana streams into 1 place and combine them,” Chloe thought.

  Chloe began to focus on flowing both mana streams into 1 place on her right hand.

  ”Why are you just silent, Princess? I thought you were going to shoot with your arrow,” Emily said

  ”Focus, focus, just ignore what she said,” Chloe thought who continued to focus.

  ”Is this a trap? You just stand still so I can attack you then you dodge it and make my attack useless, sorry princess but your trap plan will be useless, my mana is also not much so I will not waste my mana on useless attacks. So if you plan to stay still, I will stay still too,” said Emily.

  ”I almost forgot that I could be attacked while concentrating like this, but why did she think I would use that plan? I didn't even think about it, but it seems I'm lucky if she thinks I will so she won't attack me,”.

  ”Now I better stay focused,” thought Chloe again.

  ”Hopefully this time I can use that technique, I don't want to lose this match, if I lose now how will I face the people who have supported me,” thought Chloe while still combining her two mana flows.

  ”Come on, be it, be it, be it,” thought Chloe again.

  After that, Chloe finally managed to combine her two mana flows.

  ”Hah… Hah… Hah, looks like I managed to make it,” Chloe said exhaustedly, it seemed like performing the technique drained her stamina.

  A Fire Arrow was created from the combination of the two mana streams.

  ”But isn’t this a regular Fire Arrow? Well I did combine them into a regular Fire Arrow, but I don’t know if this is really a regular Fire Arrow or a Fire Piercing Arrow in the form of a regular Fire Arrow, Gosh, that’s confusing,” Chloe thought.

  ”Looks like the only way is to test it out directly, well it’s better to do it than not at all,” Chloe thought again.

  Chloe prepared to shoot the Fire Arrow with her bow.

  ”Are you serious, princess? You want to shoot a regular Fire Arrow at me? You shot a lot of Fire Arrows, I can withstand it, let alone just one Fire Arrow, it seems like you’re really desperate,” Emily said.

  “Well, let’s just say that, because I don’t know what to do,” Chloe said.

  Chloe pulled the string of her arrow, then immediately shot it.

  "Feel this, Fire Piercing Arrow," Chloe said in her heart.

  The fire arrow shot out and headed towards Emily.

  "No matter how many times I will block it," Emily said.

  Earth Magic, Earth Wall.

  Emily took out her Earth Wall again.

  "Because it's just a regular Fire Arrow, a regular Earth Wall is enough to block it," Emily said.

  The earth wall was ready to block the fire arrow. The distance between the earth wall and the fire arrow was close until finally the fire arrow hit the earth wall. But instead of being blocked by the earth wall, the earth wall was pierced and destroyed by the fire arrow,

  "What?!?!?!," said Emily in surprise.

  Emily didn't have time to react because the fire arrow came crashing at her quickly.

  "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh," said Emily in pain after being hit by the fire arrow.

  The fire arrow hit her until it hit the arena wall.

  *BUMMMMMMMMMMMM

  The impact surprised the participants who were previously focused on Princess Irene.

  “What happened in Princess Chloe’s arena, did any of you see what happened?”

  “No, I’ve been focused on Princess Irene’s match,”

  “Me too,” said the other participants.

  Because of the smoke that had appeared in the arena, the participants couldn’t see what was happening. After a while, the smoke cleared and the other participants were shocked when they saw that it was Emily who had hit the wall and was unconscious, the arrow that had hit her was gone. Chloe was exhausted while holding her bow.

  “Earlier, there was the sound of something hitting the wall, and it turned out to be Emily who had been thrown off the wall,”

  “What exactly happened?,”

  “What did Princess Chloe do,” said the confused participants.

  As confusion gripped the participants watching the match, an announcement of victory was made.

  “The winner of the match between Emily Watterson and Chloe Estella San Fulgen is .......... Chloe Estella San Fulgen,” said the supervisor Nora.

  “Hah....Hah....Hah, finally I did it, I won. And again I can use the technique that Rid taught me earlier. Huh so tiring,” said Chloe.

  The participants were initially confused by what happened, but they didn’t mind it and gave Chloe applause and cheers.

  “Congratulations, Princess,”

  “You’re great, Princess,”

  “Your attack was great, Princess,” said another participant.

  “Eh Eh Eh, why did they suddenly applaud and cheer? please don’t embarrass me,” said Chloe who suddenly became nervous.

  Back to the present.

  “For participant Emily Watterson because she lost, she will get 50 points. For participant Chloe Estella San Fulgen, the supervisor will count the number of points obtained by participant Chloe so please wait for the results for a moment in the arena. For the supervisor who is in charge of being a healer, please bring and heal participant Emily Watterson first,” said supervisor Nora.

  The supervisor who was in charge of being a healer went down to the arena and brought Emily to be healed.

  "Wait, why does Princess Chloe's points have to be counted first? isn't she not injured at all? Even the Ice Princess who wasn't injured at all got 200 points straight away without being counted first," said another participant.

  After observing more closely, they realized that Chloe was actually injured.

  "Oh my, it turns out Princess Chloe was injured, look at her cheeks, they're red as if someone had slapped her,"

  "Did your opponent do that, princess?

  "How rude of her to slap her cheeks, princess," said the other participants, especially the male participants who were excited because of the problem.

  "Eh-eh, even though I'm injured in the stomach and the wound on my cheek is because I slapped my own cheek, but how do I explain it, it's embarrassing if they find out I slapped my own cheek," thought Chloe.

  "I think I have to thank Irene because her performance made the participants who were watching focus on her and not on me," thought Chloe again.

  - To be continued